III-V nitride semiconductors are suitable for LEDs having color range from blue to green. Luminous intensity and color purity of these LEDs are so high that they have been used for many applications for full color display and LCD backlight and so on.
In addition to natural colored LEDs, we have developed short wavelength LED, named TG Purple, which wavelength is typically around 380nm. TG Purple has been realized by controlling Indium composition in GaInN well layers. It can activate photo-catalysts such as TiOx, and therefore, the air purifier for automotive has been developed by combining TG Purple and TiOx photo-catalyst. The short wavelength LED is now the best light source for automotive air purifier using photo-catalyst, because LEDs fulfill the mercury-less requirement for an environmental issue and don't need special circuit like conventional UV lamps such as black light lamps and cold cathode lamps. Furthermore this short wavelength LED is used for phosphor excitation that generates many colors like blue, green, red, etc. It is likely that, with this technology, LEDs will take some part in illumination market as one of primary light sources like incandescent lamps and fluorescent lamps.
The GaN-based MQW laser diodes have been improved excellently by introducing GaN/GaInN optical-guiding. The continuous wave laser operation at room temperature has been achieved at the wavelength of 410 nm. The lifetime of room temperature continuous wave operation is longer than 60 minutes at around 1 mW output. The external efficiencies of GaInN/GaN MQW blue and green light emitting diodes (LEDs) have been increased by newly developed flip-chip (FC) type LED lamp structure. The luminous intensities of the FC-type blue and green LEDs were typically 6 cd and 14 cd at 20 mA, respectively. The FC-type blue and green LEDs are the brightest levels in the world currently. The peak wavelengths and full widths at half maximums were typically 464 nm and 27 nm for the blue LEDs, and 515 nm and 32 nm for the green LEDs.
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